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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-19
FINANCIAL.
NEW YORK, BALTIMORE, AVID SIcH-
MoRD STOCK EXCHANGES
Grain, Provisions, Cotton, Tobacco, Tur-
pentine, Resin, Tar, and
Peanut Markets
rRv telegraph to the Dlspstch.l

NEW YORK, Novem Der is.--Thc stock marketto-
day was only moderately active. subject TO spells
of positive dulncss. and prices irregular yet MAN.
~ nrm There was no furtherset-hack as oxpecied
as liberal foreign purchases made In the early
dealings enabled the market 70 absorb the iree
offerings OF stock and even 10 advance snall
fractions There was no news ~ special I'M
rorfquco though favorable traric returns bad
some OBJECT IN maintaining the list during the
afternoon. Gould stocks came 70 the 'front.' IN
tue afternoon, ana stipulated by good adyces adj
vancod rapidly, and stand almost alone at the
close I'm showing material gains Tor tho day.
The Opcnidg was strong win fractional advances
over last nights closing prices. with moderate
business for the lrst hour, which soon fen away.
AMI TIE Ilst -ccamc quiet 20 dun Prices we're
inriiucd 10 drop in the forenoon win some ioFeT-
i-hucss 10 dealings, but there vas DO marAni
change m quotations until toward O'Clock.
whom the movement in Gould properties
began. auI under tho lead Of Texas IA
G. d. tho improvement extended 20 Faciuc
Nail, Wabash. anl Kansas and TeNa-,
with marked advances IA some of the special
Ties. The market closed arm az close ~ the
opening figures, with must everything higher,
though ;he gains are for small fractions only ln
most cases the only important advances being
fra Texas Pacific AM Poetic Mail each. and
Kansas ami Texas cnd san francisco preferred
l. each sales agglo gated aGlNO shares.
NEW YORK. November ls.-A 0n-'t0cks active
md dfm. Money ea-y a. Pei por cent tx
change Long, ~; .l0ri, isjl4. Governments
duh
Ersnrq.-Fxchauec dun ana steady. MoncT
ca -v az ia as. closing a erred nt per cent sab
Treasury nalaners-Co!i, sl3i S9i,0lO: currency
sl0.702H0l Gogenmen. iull; & per cents, l2b e;
IL, per .en's. Oh, d. STATE bonds dulL
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EPPS'S COCOA.

10y thorough slosl.dyeof the natural laws
Tii'h govern .he operations ~ digestion and Lu-
triton. 4ad uy q cu4tiHl apple Alvn 90 the nne
pr0perfle. II we'll elected Cocoa. Mr.. Epp7 has
provided our break la-'-tlbic- VIII delicntely
dayosll beverage Rlrh may save IA mscy
leuFy I0.tYrs' lil-. 81 is Dy the iu!iciOus uss
lf .urh ant tlss oi diet thst D. constitution may
be goa iGnNy ouilf up until strOug enough e
~esist tsc.y tendency to disease. Hundreds ~
subtle ma4tfl-s are Boating around us ready
o. attark wherever there d. Is weak point we
may e.rape many "a fatal shaft by keeping our
selves Veil fortified VITA pure blood aud q
p-syeriy-u0urisne frame. "-Ci9il-sergice ca
rite.
Made simply with 0Olline water or mia.
soil only ga aaIf-pound uus by grOcers, Ia.
he. ed thus: JAMES kPPs & CO..
homeopathic Chemists,
ia 18Th Tu&Saiy London. Eng
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COTTON REPORT
Market steady
QUOTATIONS..
NTuDLfNG. i0-.
Low MpDLGSG. 9'.c.
GOOD OHDlNAKY, 80.
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NOR SALE, THE KEY AND GOOD
4 WILL with sOme stock and once furniture)
0l one 81 the bestSuown ard paying comhls-
sion houses IN tiis city. Only parties who mean
ousipe.s need apply w
K B. CHAPLIN & CO,
no ls-st Real Estate Agents.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-27
Hints for Pall-Bearers.

When man is asked to act as a
pall-bearer at funeral he ought to seek
out the other pall-bearers before they
assume their Grape and their mournful
air, and practice the lock-step with
them for an hour or so, or at least until
he can be confident that they are going
to keep step when they lift up the cof-
fin and start off with it. Twas a pail
bearer recently, and my arms and
knees pain me now with the recollec-
ton. When a party of pall-bearers
take up coffin and step out of time,
the weight comes principally upon the
two end bearers, and it is no easy thing
for two men to sustain by the sharp
handles of a coffin the weight of the
casket itself and the corpse Within
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
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TROUBLES OF TOURISTS.
The Difficulties In the Way of Obtaining q
Parcel in Naples.

The Difficulties In the Way of Obtaining
Parcel in Naples.
Let us suppose that on reaching
home the visitor hears that parcel
from England awaits him at the rail-
way station. Unable to go himself, he
sends his servant with the money, the
official receipt, and a written request
to the station master to hand the parcel
to the bearer. That ought to suffice,
he thinks; but no one accustomed to
Neapolitan ways will be surprised to
learn that it does not. The bearer OF
the note is unknown personally to the
station master, and he must be identi.
fed. Fortunately this is not difficult
task, and mutual acquaintance is UNI
earthed close by. But new difficulty
10 at once forthcoming. The parcel is
declared to be of value, (though OBJ
viously only a suit of clothes,) and the
Signor must either present himself in
person or appoint an accredited agent
to deliver the parcel at his house.
Next day, accordingly, the signor pre-.
Sents himself; but here again identif-
cation is required, and this time it is
attended with so much trouble that in
disgust he accepts the services of an
accredited agent. The following day
this gentleman presents himself
with the parcel, and the salts
faction is tempered by the little
account produced with it. There is,
first of all, the cost of the carriage
then the ordinary customs; then the
town dues; then charge for every
day that it has been lying at the sta.
ton; then the agents charge, his
tram, an extra sou or two because it is
a warm day, and glass of wine to
wash it all down. On the next occa-
sion when parcel is sent from En-
gland, our visitor determines that it
shall not be sent as thing of value,
and that it shall take its chance, but
only to find that it makes no difference.
A new set of excuses is framed, and it
Is not until the authority has made his
little profit that the parcel reaches its
destination. We have ourselves never
yet been able to discover whether this
is legalized or illegal robbery, but on
one occasion we endeavored to escape
the blackmailing by directing the par
Gel to be sent on by post. This was no
advantage; the gain appeared to be
transferred from the station-master to
postmaster, though perhaps they went
halves This latter was almost gem
tleman in appearance, but he was not
above accepting an extra three sous,
which the steepness of the hill had
given him the excuse to ask for.-Mur-
rays Magazine,
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ORIENTAL HAREMS.
Liberties Enjoyed by Turkish Women and
Their Egyptian Sisters.

Liberties Enjoyed by Turkish Women and
Their Egyptian Sisters.
In many respects the harems of Con-
stantinople are allowed greater liberty
than those of Egypt and Persia. The
ladies of Stamboul are much addicted
to walking, whereas those of Cairo are
never seen. in the streets on foot At
the Sweet Waters the harems stray
over the meadows or picnic on the
banks of the Kiaght Khaneh stream,
with the fresh air blowing round them.
The Egyptian danes, however, can
never stir except in their carriages, and
can only view the world and their
neighbors from the windows of a
brougham. The Bezestan of Stamboul
is daily honored by great ladies who
think no evil of riding in the public
tram-cars between Galata and Pera !;
but an Egyptian harem who attempted
to mix with the crowd in such pro-
miscuous fashion would be promptly
banned. In other ways, however, es-
pecially since the days of Ismail Pasha,
the harem of Cairo has opened its eyes
considerably to what goes on beyond
its proper ken. The wives and families
of foreign residents and travellers put
down the various high harems on
their visiting lists, and the bi-weekly
promenading on the Shoobra and Ge-
zireh avenues give the yelled ones an
opportunity of seeing in the flesh the
personages of whom they are perpetu-
ally hearing stories and anecdotes. 1t
also gives the men a chance of having
this and that khdnem pointed out to
them as they whirl past in their neat
little carriages till each gets to know
the other by sight at least tolerably
well. The opera and the afternoon
promenade are the chief excitements
of Egyptian harem life. The Cairo
Opera House, built by the late Khe-
dive in style commensurate with the
lavish disregard of expense which
marked his reign, is fitted with a dozen
boxes on the second tier, whose fronts
are framed with a gauzy screen en-
abling the occupants to watch the play
and the house, and supposed to prevent
the house from watching them. The
sparkling of bright eyes and diamonds
are nevertheless apt to attract discreet
attention, and q powerful glass nearly
annihilates the screen, SO that the
beauties in reality come not only tC
see, but to be seen, like their Western
sisters round them. A separate en-
trance leads up to the harem boxes
and after the fall of the curtain the
harem don their habarahs and stea
out to their carriages by back way
where it is whispered that many
note and bonbonniere await them OF
their passage. Saturday ReUiea0.
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AN EXTINCT BIRD.
How the Once Numerous Great AUX Family
Was Exterminated.

How the once Numerous Great AUX famly
Was Exterminated.
Sixty or seventy years ago the birds
were exceedingly common along the
northern coast, coming as far south as
Nahant. But warfare was commenced
upon them. and, though it hardly
seems possible, their determination is
doubtless complete; the last living bird
having been killed in 1874, on a group
of islands called Funglasker, off the
southwest coast of Iceland.
In the last century, these birds,
which were large, handsome and strik-
ing in appearance, were common at
the Farce Islands; and, as they were
found to be good eating, they were
slaughtered by the boat-load, not only
for immediate use, but to be dried and
preserved. They were finally driven
20 desolate rock that was considered
inaccessible; but one calm day a
Faroese vessel succeeded in making a
landing, and the crew destroyed nearly
the entire rookery. A few birds es-
capped to sea and returned after the de-
parture of the men, and for time were
safe. Then, as if nature herself were
in league against them, the rock few
years later was engulfed by a subma-
rine eruption.
The few remaining great auks now
assembled and formed a rookery on a
rock called Eldey, where, for fourteen
years, they lived precarious exist
ence During that time sixty OF their
number were taken, and finally the
last pair was destroyed, Their history
in other localities is very similar to
this. That the birds were once COM
mon on the Maine coast is shown by
the fact that their bones are found in
the oyster-shell heaps at various parts
of the shore.
At the same time and in the same
locality with the great aux, lived the
Labrador duck, fine bird, quite rare
even in collections, and now totally eX'
tinct. The last known living specimen
was killed by Colonel Wedderburn, Of
Halifax, in 1852.
In similar way the curious dodo,
which was a giant pigeon, was exter
minated. The sailors who visited the
island of Mauritius used to kill themir
mere wanton sport.
The notorniS, beautiful rail of New
Zealand, has become extinct probabl.
within the memory of some of our read
ers, its determination also being du
TO man. And in our own time, we Sc
the buffalo being crowded farther an
farther into the mountains, and almOs
'xterminated from our Western plains
. Charles Frederick Holder, go S
Nicholas.
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A Ball Club Managers Lot.


The life of base ball manager is
strange one. If his team is winning
right along he is left alone, and what
ever credit there may be goes to the
team. If his team commences to lose
he is blamed and the team excused for
the poor work. Last season, notwith-
standing the most determined efforts, l
was unable to get winning team to-
gether, and was criticised severely by
press and public. This year, through a
combination of good luck, gathered a
good team, and now the credit goes to
the team and not to me. 1t is true my
mind is easy, as the press can not criti'
else me, but the credit of gathering a
winning team is never given, although
the team, as such, engrosses the atten'
ton of press and public. Surely q
l'ase ball managers task is a thankles,
cne.-Manager Barnes, IN BdltiROr,
San,
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THE TYPICAL AUSTRALIAN.
Hospitality of the Well-tO-Do Grazlers or
Squatters of the AntipOdes.

Hospitality of the Well-tO-Do Grazlers or
Squatters of the AntipOdes.
No man is more hospitable than the
well-to-do Australian. A visitor arriv-
ing we'll introduced will be passed on
from villa to villa, from country house
to country house, and from run to run,
sharing everywhere the most profus6
kindness. In few weeks he wilt
hardly know who first started him OF
the progress he is making.
There is little snobbery In the coun
try, but as most of the people are "self
made" the parvenu is, of course, not
an unknown parsonage, though the
circumstances of the country and of the
people prevent him-or her-becoming
quite so Objectionable as he OF she
would be in an older condition of So
Ciety.
The squatters or grazers are the
aristocrats of the country, though some
of the successful of them have been
butchers and drovers, possibly even of
humber or less reputable antecedents.
They are imbued with extremely terri
torial instincts, and will refer to the
small farmer, "who selects under the
colonial land laws bit of the run he
leases from the Government, or the ir-
reverential gold digger, as an English
squire would speak of pOacher, or
many-acred peer of the "city man" who
builds "snug box overlooking his
park wall.
Yet while the English Squire is like
ly to talk of every thing rather than of
his rent roll or the balance he has at
the bankers, the squatter will hardly
fail to tell his visitor of what he has
gotlast summer for his wool, or what
he expects to get this winter for the
fatoXen which are grazing in the pref
ty but roughly kept paddock you can
see from the veranda surrounding the
country house, which he built when he
got beyond the "hut' stage of brush
struggling existence.
The ladies are well educated, but
though charming company for visit
or they are as rule somewhat cloud
and inclined to exact the utmost defer
ence from all the male world around
them and to repay it by as little vener.
alton as possible, Nobody awes them.
AS are the mistresses so are the maids
who have much of the pertness of such
young persons, as exhibited in plays
and on the stage generally.-COu''triel
ofthe World.
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"A man in Lafayette, Ind, was re-
Gently granted divorce from his wife
on the ground that she was an inveter-
ate smoker and user of tobacco in all
forms. The Woman'S Standard thinks
that ''if the wives of all men who are
addicted to its use should seek to be
released from matrimonial bonds or
that account the courts would be ir
permanent session, and lawyers wouh
become immensely wealthy"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-27

Ground that has been enriched by
the application of plenty of barnyard
manure will be greatly benefited by
the use of lime. Twenty-Five bushels
applied once in four or five years works
wonders on some soils,
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Market Reports.-Pens and paper
are stationary. Cutlery is very dull.
Cheese firm and fairly active. Butter
strong, but inclined to be slippery.
Whisky lively and unsteady. Hops
lively and active. Gunpowder in
,lined to be rising Eggs opened
strong
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poetrp.
LEFT BEHIND.
M an ,be Yeor Round

From All the Year Round.
We started equal in the race-nay, more,
We started hand in hand-how good seemed life! 4!
How shone the little waves upon the shore
When first we wandered when he called me wife
could not see the shadows awesome birth,
For sunshine flooded all the fair young earth.
How has Ii faded? Love that was so true
In those first days. has lost its early grace
Soft drifting clouds gather below the blue.
That seemed to be fair Heavens uncloudcd face.
That shone above us as we turned to leave
A life of dreams-that love alone did weave.
Yet home was there; for that first home OF ours
We did not scorn the voice that called US therei
Our home should e'er be bright as Edens bowers,
Our love should wax with time more sweet more
fair.
Work claimed us; life stood no more idly by,
Teaching the happy hours how TO fly.
And 50 we entered where work hold the reins.
Nor shirked the future with its heavy load;
At evening there were wanderings in the lanes;
Loves lamp lit up the gloom in our abode
Yet, who could watch the swallows eager quest
With tired eyes that only longed for rest
He ,l1ad his dreams to dream. just as of old.
l~eHis fances few above on happy wings;
Escaping all that was so duly told
The weary march of useful common things,
1 could not rise: when quite worn out with pain,
Or childrens cries, longed for sleep again.
1 slipped aside unwitting-but in dreams
saw alone once more that happy time
Ere work could separate. or blHr the CLEANS
The sun had lent us-turning prose to rhyme,
He rose yet higher, and loosed the band;
would not drag him down from fairyland
For he is happy, and his life is sweet
Nor recks he that so far lag behind,
Perchance beyond life's mists once more Wen meet
And in one strand our lives shall then be twined
One strand so strong, it shall have power to draw
Our hearts together-being one, once more.
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rRUsTEE's SALE
IL OFA
d ESI ABB LIE F. A r MI
Tn Manchester District.


y By virtue of dc ,ee of the Circuit Cour
M for Carroll county, sitting as a Court of Equity
passed in cause No. 2531 Equity, wherein
John w. Tracy, Trustee, and Mary E. Tracy
are plaintiffs, and Albin J. P. Roth and Others
are defendants, the undersigned, as Trustee,
will sell at public sale, on the premises, about
2 miles north of Melrose, and II miles south
west of Black Rock Station, near the line OF
the Backman Valley Railroad, on
Saturday, the 10th day Of September, 1887,
al 2 o'clock, P. NJ, all that desirable tract OF
land containing
IO1 ACRES, 2 ROODS AND PERCHES
OF LAND, MORE OR LESS.
The improvements thereon consist of fine
Brick Dwelling House, good ~
Bank Barn, Dairy and Spring AGA-A
House, Smoke House, Chicken ~ laISA
House, and all the other neces- eal5zfzztEz5 eal55t1 1zztEz5
sary outbuildings. There is a spi.ug Of ex-
celient water SO feet from the house and rum
ming water in the barnyard. There is thriv-
ing orchard on the farm, and also due pro-
portion of timber land.
This property is desirably located near
schools, churches, mills, &C., and adjoins the
lands of Theodore Tracy, Christian Fulmer
and others.
Persons desiring to view the property will
depG.hown the same by calling on Albin J. ?.
resides thereon, or the undersigned,
blacleboro, Md.
TbnrSJav mSf iSale.-One- third of the purchase
MOI cor De paid in cash on the day of sale
or upoif-the ratification thereof; one-third in
one year, and the other one third in two years
from the day of sale; the credit payments to
be secured by the notes of the purchaser or
purchasers, with approved security, bearing
interest from the day of sale.
John w. TRACY, Trustee.
Charles B. Roberts and E. Frank Tracy.
Solicitors. aug 20:ts
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MAGISTRATES OFFICE.

/ take this method of informing my friends
and the public that have opened an Office
for the transaction of the
DUTIES OF A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
in the Haines & Co. Building, next door to
the store, nearly opposite the First National
Bank, and respectfully solicit patronage. !
shall also continue
THE BUSINESS OF FIRE INSURANCE
upon very liberal terms, being agent for the
Royal of Liverpool, North America of Phila-
delphia, and Etna of Hartford, Conn.
GEO. W. MATTHEWS, J. p,
mays If Westminster, Nd.
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Mixed Up Relationship.

The way people can mix up themselves
and their relatives in the matter Of mar
riage was never, perhaps, better illustrated
than in the case Of backwoods Maine fam
lily, of which correspondent writes;
A father, son and grandson married
three sisters.
That looks simple enough, doesn't it ?
l. Amos, the father, married Abigail.
2. Benjamin, son of Amos, married
Betsy.
8. Charles, son of Benjamin, married
Caroline.
What then?
Amos is brother to his son.
Amos is brother to his grandson.
Amos is grandfather to his daughter.
Amos is grandfather to his sister,
Amos is father to his wife.
Amos is father to his grandson.
Amos is his own grandfather, his own
son, and brother-in-law to himself.
Benjamin is brother to his father.
Benjamin is brother to his son.
Benjamin is brother to his mother.
Benjamin is brother to his daughter
Benjamin is the sister of his SON.
Benjamin is the husband of his sister.
Charles is brother to his father
Charles is brother to his grandfather.
Charles is brother to his mother.
Charles is brother to his grandmother
Charles is grandnephew to hismother.
Charles is grandnephew to his wife
Charles is grandchiId Of his aunt.
Charles is married to another aunt.
Charles is the son Of his aunt.
Charles is the husband Of his sister.
Maine is responsible for good many
things, but the aforegoing viii show that
she is still engaged in the gcsd work.
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soLLEcT YOUR BILLS.

Short credits make long friends. The un-
dersigned, Constable for Westminster dis
trict, duly bonded and qualified. offers his
services to the public as Collector. He will
take accounts to collect either as public
officer, or on private account, onliberal terms,
and returns promptly made. References
Union National, First National and Farmers
& Mechanics, National banks of Westminster.
viii also clerk and auctioneer sales.
JOHN 7. DIFFENBAUGH,
june 25sy Westminster, Nd
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A farmers wife was out in the front
yard when young man came up to the
gate and inquired if she had seen a man
pass on bicycle.
She said she had not, adding but III
tell you what did see, / doa't know as
you'll believe it, would not have believed
it if / had not seen it myself. It was one
wheel of wagon running away with a
man."
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l would favor killing off all lazy people,
only 1 am afraid that mans ingenuity
would invent something worse in its stead.
It is wonder to me that they have not
tried to improve on lazlness before this.